The Dutch East India Company was
chartered in 1602, and made good use of its early start (shown
in a steel engraving by Cool and Rennefeld, Leiden, c.1880)
Source: ebay, Aug. 2005
The Dutch Company sent Henry Hudson off westward in 1609
(shown in a steel engraving from the 1860's)
Source: ebay, Aug. 2001
Natives of Arrakan sell slaves to the Dutch East India Company at
Pipely/Baliapal (in Orissa), Jan. 1663; a view from an account of
the experiences of a Dutch East India Company surgeon on an
expedition 1658-65, 'Wouter Schouten's travels into the East
Indies', 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1708 (with the *title page of the work*); also:
*"The Moorish governor of Pipely meets the
Arrakan people near their fleet to negotiate attacks by them on
the coast" (with slave trading to the left)*
*"Bad
encounter"
(the Dutch of the VOC, while drinking from a well, are attacked
by mad women in Gentynen, Coromandel, 1661)*
*"Battle at
the coast of Malabar, India, the Pepper coast, between the Dutch
VOC and Portugese with Nairos, Dcember 1661"*
*"Customary marriage ceremonies of the
Moors in Bengal"*
*"Rare actions of some entertainers as
seen in the Bengal Kingdom"*
*[a VOC ship stuck in a sandbank in the
Ganges, 1664; a sailor ashore is mauled by a tiger; Bengalis
worship in the river]*
Source: ebay, Aug. 2010
A celebration of VOC victories in Samboupo (in modern
Indonesia), 1669. From an atlas published by Johannes de
Ram, Amsterdam, c.1690.
.
Source: ebay, Nov. 2013
*A view
of the embassy of the Dutch VOC company to the court of the King
of Persia, from 'La galerie agreable du monde (...). Tome
premier des d'Afrique.', published by P. van der Aa, Leyden, c.
1725*
Source: ebay, Feb. 2012
Pieter van den Broecke, the chief "Director in Suratte,
Arabia, and Persia," who presided over the Dutch East India
Company's trade; a copper engraving by Francois Valentijn, 1726
Source: ebay, May 2004
"T Oost Indische Magazyn, en Scheeps-Timmer-Werf" (Commelin,
Amsterdam, 1726), an Amsterdam dockyard scene; *the whole engraving*
Source: ebay, Mar. 2007
A view of the Dutch East India House in Delft, from 'Beschryving
der stadt Delft' by R. Boitet and D. van Bleyswyck, Delft, 1729
Source: ebay, Mar. 2013
The "Templum Meccanum" and Muslim prayers, from 'De Religione
Mohammedica' by the Dutch author Adrian Relandi, 1717
Source: ebay, Aug. 2004
"His Excellency Gerard Hulst, first
Counsellor and Director General of the Indies, Commander in Chief
of all the Sea and Land Forces sent to Ceylon and the Coast of the
Indies," from Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages', London, 1744
Source: ebay, Dec. 2010
This Dutch East India Company ("VOC") copper trading coin from
1743 was known in America as a "New York penny" because it was
in such wide circulation in New York; the Dutch East India
Company foreign headquarters was the port of New Amsterdam, on
the southern tip of Manhattan
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007
A coin with the "VOC" (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie)
emblem of the Dutch East India company on the face to the left,
along with the date 1786; on the right face the company's name
is spelled out and its crest is shown
Source: ebay, May 2007
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